The difference between a standing order and a direct debit. Essentially, a standing order is an instruction to your bank, whereas a direct debit gives permission to a company to take money from you. You are the only person who can change the date or payment amount on your standing order.
Born on April 17, 1894 in Kalinovka, Russia, Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. In a 1956 secret speech, he discussed Stalin's crimes for the first time, starting a process called de-Stalinization..
Mikhail Gorbachev served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. Before he assumed office, much attention went to building up the nationâs military at the expense of development within the Soviet Union, which ultimately weakened the economy.